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AU $710 and temporary loss of licence for an entire season, for just 30km/h over?

That's utterly crazy! Do you live in North Korea?

In Germany (not the most relaxed country on Earth when it comes to authorities!), the same offence is €80.- and 3 points on the offence register (you loose your licence with 18 accumulated points). The points will be deleted in 2 years if no other offence has been commited.

On motorways / Autobahn & dual lane A-roads not subject to a general speed limit, minimum distance rules apply - tailgating fines & bans are similar than the ones for speeding, and as mentioned above, they are checked by mobile police radar/photo units placed on bridges:

In 25 years and over half a million kms, the fastest I was ever caught was 25km/h over - in the car, doing 85 in a silly 60 zone (public road works on a motorway). Never got a tailgating fine on unlimited stretch of Autobahn.

As I said, bikers rarely get fined, since fixed radars flash front only, and surprise laser checks with police checkpoints are very rare.

It is very hard going here . . . we are totally over policed . . . but the government use these guys
as a revenue raising arm and they flex it quite hard . . .
Australia has become a nanny state . . . over regulated, over policed, over taxed, and Im over it . . .
We should have huge auto bahns like europe, but in stead we have privately funded freeways that
fix their prices according to the cpi and and are spiralling out of control.

Then there are the rego and insurance costs . . . dont get me started.

I do love Australia, but seriously . . . its a joke . . .

If I had been doing 103 in a built up area I would not complain, but I was out of the suburbs where
the only danger I posed was running into a tree and a greenie getting the shits.
The road is a straight gentle uphill doddle . . .
On This same road a few weeks before a police car followed me all the way up for about 10k at 60kph.
He sat on my tail, and I did 58 - 59 ks. I had to pass a couple of push bikes, blinker move round staying
inside the double white lines . . . In my mirror I see the copper pull out over the double whites . . .
I would have been severly fined maybe even loose licene on the spot . . copper just keeps following me.
I could go on but I wont . . . needless to say, Im not riding that road anymore.